ASA news: Property raffles. You could say this is a minor obsession of mine and it’s certainly a topic I’ve covered many times in the last few years. Property raffles invite you to buy a ticket for... READ MORE >
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ASA ruling: Inside Lifestyle Inside Lifestyle is a ‘bespoke travel experience company’ offering holidays in Ibiza and Dubai. In July last year it ran a prize promotion with celebrity influencer ... READ MORE >
A man called Peter Wilson was recently the subject of an ASA ruling. Back in March this year he ran a promotion on Instagram. It was a giveaway and the prize was a voucher for £100. A winner was dr... READ MORE >
This is the story of an email, a website and a sponsored Facebook post describing two promotions that offered the chance to win a new home. If you’re quick on the uptake (and have read the title) y... READ MORE >
So here’s another recent ruling from the ASA and this time the complaint was related to a blog by an influencer called the Londoner about a holiday she, her partner and their new-born baby took at ... READ MORE >
The other day I read a good piece in Vice by Lauren O’Neill, a staff writer specialising in millennials and the internet. It was a report about BorderlessLive, which, says Lauren, was billed as the... READ MORE >
The ASA has just published a report called The Labelling of Influencer Advertising and the key finding is that people find it hard to identify when social media posts by influencers are ads. I mean... READ MORE >
The ASA recently published a ruling on a complaint about a house raffle. I blogged about it, concluding the post with a comment that we would probably see further complaints about house raffles. We... READ MORE >
Let me take you back to last Christmas, December 2018, when the following radio ad was broadcast: “Dear Santa, I’ve been terribly good, so for Christmas I’d really like a £3 million, six-bedroom ri... READ MORE >
